No ‘breasts’ or ‘buttocks’ at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, says CBS in bizarre memo

(FILES)Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez poses for photographers at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in this February, 23,2000 photo. US TV network CBS has written to Grammy performers warning them against wearing revealing clothing at the weekend show, including breasts or "fleshy under curves of the buttocks and buttock crack." In a letter leaked to various media, February 7, 2013, including celebrity news website TMZ, the television giant also warned of "puffy" bare skin exposure around the genital region. AFP PHOTO/VINCE BUCCI

The network requests that “buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered” for the televised award show. The memo sent out Wednesday also warned against “see-through clothing,” exposure of “the genital region” and said that “thong type costumes are problematic.”

Representatives for CBS and the Recording Academy declined to comment on Thursday. Deadline Hollywood first reported the memo.

CBS broadcast the infamous 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that included Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.” The network was initially fined by the Federal Communications Commission, though the fine was later overturned.

The 55th annual Grammy Awards will be held Sunday at 8 p.m. EST at Los Angles’ Staples Center.

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